Published by Vintage, part of Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback
£9.99
Author:
John Fuller
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9780099748502
£9.99
Printed and dispatched within 10-15 working days
EAN: 9780099748502
Published: 12 Jun 1997
When David's mother is killed in the Blitz he moves to a new life in Lancashire with his young aunt Jean. As he watches the adult world around him, a fighter pilot wakes to discover his brutal disfigurement in a world he neither recognises nor remembers. The fragile link between the man and the boy as each experiences his own painful rite of passage is movely described in this powerful and evocative novel.
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This short intense study of character and identity is, as one has come to expect from this fine poet, studded with precise but magical notations of the everyday world
- Sunday Times
It's his Golding-esque way with males stuck in and fighting their way out of tight corners that grants this rite-of-passage novel its special magnetism
- Observer
Superb...a novel of special quality
- Evening Standard
